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Monday, July 08, 2013

Simple Path To Constitutionally Sound Government: Follow BHO!

By Sam Pierce -

Our nation is faced with a mountain range of serious, self-inflicted
problems. We are damning future generations to suffocating debt, by
choice. We are sacrificing precious American lives in far away lands
under the very thin masks of "defense" or foreign relations. We take
from the producer and use the ill-gotten gain to further erode the
foundation of the country. We outsource the management of daily life to a
far off bureaucracy. We move toward some variation of the life depicted
in Orwell's "1984" without much resistance. We have almost entirely
succumbed to the subtly deadly weapon of political correctness, which
has been employed magnificently by the enemies of liberty.

I know the popular, at least among those who claim the elastic
moniker, "conservative," solution would be to place our noses adjacent
to the proverbial grindstone in support of Republican candidates. Of
course, they are correct that none but Democrat or Republican candidates
can win in the big elections (a situation they toil to perpetuate).
Even so, electing Republicans has proven to be no solution, at least,
not in itself.

The solution, not to every problem, but to an enormous portion is simple: Follow BHO! I don't claim that the simple would be at all easy to implement. Most people don't seem to like BHO, or at least BHO as related to their favorite issues. I will be the first to admit that a federal government dedicated to BHO would be very difficult to swallow.

Look at your children or your grandchildren. (Don't have children?
Look at someone else's children.) Think about the society in which three
or four generations from now will dwell. Consider what kind of person
you want to be. Are you the kind of person to choose your comfort or
your favored governmental action at the expense of your descendants?
Really? Of course, we (no one alive today) started the descent into
corruption and burdensome debt we will leave to our heirs. That does not
give us the right to exacerbate the situation. If we are not entirely
generation-ly (maybe not proper use of the English language)
narcissistic, we have a moral obligation to at least stop the spread of
the madness!

This is why I suggest that when a situation is presented for which
the federal government or one of its pustules deems it could be
beneficial to act, we follow BHO!

Consider the areas invaded by the seemingly infinite federal
tentacles. Now consider if the federal tentacle has a legitimate,
constitutionally sound claim in each area. Be careful to temper your
consideration with the actual amended Constitution of the United States of America and
not the spewings of Ministry of Truth reports or the oversteps of
activist judges. When you find that you cannot find a legitimate claim
for the federal tentacle, especially in a place you wish the tentacle to
remain, how will you react?

I submit that the overwhelming majority of citizens (yes, even those
who pay attention) would seek to rationalize or excuse their preferred
extra-constitutional tentacles. Assuming that we do not all share a few
favored oversteps, it is not likely that the Constitution could be
amended to cover a few currently constitutionally off-limits issues in
which the federal government has made a permanent infestation while the
remaining untold number of infestations be starved and eliminated.

No, we don't really want to limit the scope of the federal government
to one which is constitutionally sound. If we did, we would demand our
federal government Follow BHO!

It occurs to me that the reader may be confusing the good BHO, for which I advocate, with the bad BHO, who exemplifies the very problem I lament. I do not recommend that we follow Barack Hussein Obama, but the general policy:

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Simple Path To Constitutionally Sound Government: Follow BHO!

By Sam Pierce -

Our nation is faced with a mountain range of serious, self-inflicted
problems. We are damning future generations to suffocating debt, by
choice. We are sacrificing precious American lives in far away lands
under the very thin masks of "defense" or foreign relations. We take
from the producer and use the ill-gotten gain to further erode the
foundation of the country. We outsource the management of daily life to a
far off bureaucracy. We move toward some variation of the life depicted
in Orwell's "1984" without much resistance. We have almost entirely
succumbed to the subtly deadly weapon of political correctness, which
has been employed magnificently by the enemies of liberty.

I know the popular, at least among those who claim the elastic
moniker, "conservative," solution would be to place our noses adjacent
to the proverbial grindstone in support of Republican candidates. Of
course, they are correct that none but Democrat or Republican candidates
can win in the big elections (a situation they toil to perpetuate).
Even so, electing Republicans has proven to be no solution, at least,
not in itself.